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PHEW! Monreal and other Gunners give Arsenal injury boost

After more bad luck for Arsenal players in the weekend win at West Brom, it looked like Arsene Wenger might have to do some more juggling of his squad and experiment with yet another different Arsenal back four, as both of our left backs Kieran Gibbs and Nacho Monreal picked up knocks.

And the manager revealed in his press conference today, reported by Arsenal.com, that there was some concern about the fitness of our in form England international Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain as well, while he was not sure how well Laurent Koscielny’s problematic ankle tendons would respond to his first game back.

They were all due to have tests this morning before the Gunners trained and it looks like, from the pictures on Arsenal.com, apart from Kieran Gibbs, they have all come through those tests and should be fine to face Southampton tomorrow evening.

Monreal, Koscielny, the Ox and Yaya Sanogo, whose supposed hamstring strain turned out to be cramp, all trained with the rest of their fit Arsenal team mates and that is a real boost for Wenger and our hopes of keeping up the recent run of performances and results.

I still think we might lose a bit of attacking threat from having Monreal instead of Gibbs on the left, but our defence at least should be nice and solid. So if the Gunners can continue to create chances as we have been doing and hopefully sharpen up on the taking of them, I think that all three points will be staying in north London.

i was not really worried with the injuries in the last match, because from observation they looked like small knocks, but with arsenal you never know.

I expect to see the same starting 11 and i expect a victory another clean sheet would be nice too.

Southampton striker who i actually like is quite similar to giroud in every way and at one point i would have liked him at arsenal when he was tearing up the goal charts in Holland, i had found it strange he had not received a call to the Italian team at the time, but he finally got the call since moving to southampton, its really strange that you enter the manager’s eye when you are in certain leagues and to certain extent top of the table teams (just a thought)

i would like to see wenger make an open invite to any and all the invincible swho are makning there way in the coaching arina now sod city viera should be back at arsenal we should screw them over like they have done to us lately
first team coaches
henry and bergkamp sol campbell and maybe pires he wants back
gaolkeeping coach
lehmann
youth coaches/managers
veira, remi garde
technial director
marc overmars
this would set us up for years to come and there is a continuity to it also coyg

Good news at least. Whatever happens, this January window Henry must come back and retire in his home. His arrival could also give us a huge boost and an increased fighting spirit because so far, only Wishere and Sanchez have consistently shown real hunger to fight and win games. If entire team had the same level of drive and hunger we could beat anybody.